FED:Jailed Australian not a spy says wife

AAP General News (Australia)
02-01-2011
FED:Jailed Australian not a spy says wife

The wife of an Australian citizen who has been in jail in China for five years insists
he is not a spy.

JAMES SUN has spent the past five years in prison in China .. with two years on death
row .. after being convicted of being a spy for Taiwan.

Fairfax newspapers report he's now serving a life sentence in Beijing Prison No.2.

His wife says her husband's confession was concocted and he's never been to Taiwan
and doesn't know anyone there.

Mrs SUN has now gone public with his case .. which Fairfax reports the Australian government
has known about since 2006 .. hoping he can be brought home to serve his sentence under
a 2007 treaty with China for the repatriation of prisoners.

But the Australian government has not passed the enabling legislation.

AAP RTV mn/psm/

KEYWORD: SUN (MELBOURNE)

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